![](https://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:8XzsCewkmb0C:www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/music/2002/09/images/kerrang_270.jpg) LONDON, UK (Kerrang! Awards Website) - The Kerrang! Award nominations have been announced and The Darkness are up for three awards - Best British Newcomer, Best Album and Best Live Act. Gay Bar by Electric 6 is nominated for Best Video and Best Single, and Evanesence are shortlisted for Best International Newcomer and Best Single, says the BBC Radio 1 website. The Kerrang! nominations in full are: Best British Newcomer: Funeral for a Friend; The Darkness; This Girl; Million Dead; Winnebago Deal: Best International Newcomer: Evanesence; Finch; The Mars Volta; Poison the Wall; The Used; Best Single: Good Charlotte - Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous; Foo Fighters - All My Life; Electric 6 - Gay Bar; Linkin Park - Faint; Evanesence - Bring me to Life; Best Video: Electric 6 - Gay Bar; Audioslave - Cochise; Murderdolls - White Wedding; Marilyn Manson - Mob Scene; Foo Fighters - Low: Best Album: Deftones - Deftones; White Stripes - Elephant; Metallica - St Anger; The Darkness - Permission to Land; HIM - Love Metal; Best Live Act: The Darkness; Sum 41; Reel Big Fish; Iron Maiden; The Murderdolls; Best British Band: Feeder; InMe; Hell is for Heroes; Muse; Stereophonics;
Best International Band: Metallica; Linkin Park; Good Charlotte; System of a Down; Red Hot Chili Peppers; Event of the Year: Download; Glastonbury; Reading/Leeds; V2003; T in the Park; The awards ceremony takes place on August 21.
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